Episode 21: February 16, 2012

Steve Coolbaugh,  Managing Consultant for Business Intelligence and Reporting at TMA Resources  joins Rob to discuss the new look of the dashboards in Personify.   Specifically he shows the meetings and membership dashboards.  Steve highlights the different items on the dashboard and how to drill into the reports to see the data.

This episode was produced based on the high interest generated from a recent article in the customer newsletter about dashboards.  To read the article click here.

For more information on Personify Analytics click here.
 

Episode 20: February 9, 2012

Rob talks about the new Personify 2010 Outlook Plug-in. He explains what the plug-in is, how it is different from the 2007 Outlook plug-in and then briefly shows the interface of the plug-in in Outlook and how it integrates with Personify.

If you would like to see the short demonstration video that shows more functionality of the Personify Outlook Plug-in please contact Parag Acharya pacharya@tmaresources.com.

Episode 19: February 2, 2012

This week Rob highlights a blog written by Narayan Majji called Descriptors in WebI prompts from the Connect community site. Narayan wrote this to show new prompts in Business Objects WebI Reports. Rob walks through the new prompts and shows how they work.

Episode 18: January 26, 2012


Inspired by some recent discussions on the community site, Rob shows some ways you can change the menu options in Personify to suit your organization’s needs.

After watching this episode if you decide to customize your menu using the tips Rob shows then we encourage you to share a screenshot of your new menu with other users on the Connect community site.

Episode 17: January 19, 2012

This episode is all about TAUG 2012. Rob highlights some of the events at TAUG and interviews the TAUG Program Committee Chair, Michael Berkeley of ASCD. More information about TAUG 2012 can be found on the official TAUG Web site.

Episode 16: January 12, 2012

This episode features the Advanced Email Verifier for Personify. Rob talks about how this is integrated with Personify. He shows how he tool validates email addresses and tips for how to purchase it, set it up, and run the process.

Episode 15: January 5, 2012

Paul Gannon joins Rob to discuss the first membership and marketing users group summit. Membership and marketing professionals who use Personify joined TMA Resources in the Vienna office for an all day meeting. Paul talks about the program and the upcoming users group summit for accounting professionals.

For more information on the Accounting Users Group Summit click here.

Episode 14: December 29, 2011

In this episode Rob talks about the TMA Resources Partner Advantage Program, the different types of partners, and where to find our more about our partners.

Episode 13: December 22, 2011

In this episode Rob talks about the TMA Resources Connect community’s mobile version. TMA Resources Connect is now available for the Android and Blackberry mobile devices along with the iPhone. You can pause the video and scan the QR codes to go right to the app store for your mobile device or click on the link below.

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Also as a special holiday edition, Rob highlights customers who are giving back. Rob reached out to the TMA Resources customer community to ask what organizations are doing to give back for the holidays. He talks about those organizations that replied and the causes they supported.

Episode 12: December 15, 2011


In this episode Rob talks about a recent discussion on the TMA Resources Connect community site. The discussion was about how to show a product to a select group. One customer suggested that they use Personify’s Identity Management. Rob shows how to set up and use identity management in Personify.

Episode 11: December 8, 2011

Rob filmed this episode live at Higher Logic’s User Group (HUG) 2011 Super Forum in Washington DC. He talks briefly about the conference. He also addresses discussions about getting information from your social community site into your AMS. Higher Logic and Personify have an integration that share information and Rob gives some tips for getting the most out of that integration.

The slides from the presentation about integrating your community with Personify are on TMA Resources Connect.

Episode 10: December 1, 2011


Rob talks with Susannah Mechem, Principal Managing Consultant at TMA Resources, about marketing lists in Personify.

Episode 9: November 24, 2011


Rob shows how he has used code-behind on a screen to validate a field and re-calculate other fields on that screen.

Episode 8: November 17, 2011


In this episode, Rob talks with Adam Getz, Manager of the BI and Reporting at TMA Resources, about two under used features of Business Objects, LiveOffice & Widgets. Both of these tools can be used to easily get to your Personify data.

Episode 7: November 10, 2011

In the second part series with Paul Gavura, Paul shares tips for using notifications.

Episode 6: November 3, 2011

Part one: Paul Gavura, Chief Architect at TMA Resources joins Rob Kaighn in a two part show about notifications in Personify.

Episode 5: October 27, 2011

Steve Harris from the American Society of Safety Engineers and organizer of the Developer Users Group joined Rob for a chat via Skype. Steve talks about the Developer Users Group Community, things they have done in the past and the next upcoming meeting.

Episode 4: October 20, 2011

Rob recaps the latest Washington Metro Area Users Group Meeting that was hosted by Biotechnology Industry Organization. He then shares a discussion from the meeting on adding LinkedIn to a member profile and demonstrates how to add it in Personify. He also shows how easy it is to submit session ideas for the upcoming TMA Resources Annual Users Group Conference. To submit a session idea click here.

Episode 3: October 13, 2011

A recent discussion on the TMA Resources Connect community about Personify’s help switching from WebWorks to RoboHelp prompts an interview with Amy Gaberdiel, technical writer from our documentation group, to discuss the move and the advantages end users will see.

Episode 2: October 6, 2011

Rob discusses blogging on the TMA Resources Connect Community and highlights one of his favorite blogs describing how to link results from a WebI query to a Personify screen. For example, linking directly to a customer record.

Episode 1: September 29, 2011

Rob Kaighn introduces TMA Resources Connect Plus. Then Rob talks with Lauren Janik and discusses TMA Resources social responsibility efforts including our participation in the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Half Marathon with staff, clients and partners and how we are raising money for Autism Speaks. You may make a general donation or sponsor a runner. You can also meet some of our runners and see why they run in this short video and you may also watch a short video that highlights our runners and volunteers and Autism Speaks.